Top agent urges MLB players boycott spring training

Could major league baseball players stage a boycott of spring training as a way to protest the glacier-like pace of the offseason free agent market?

That’s what one prominent baseball agent is proposing, anyway.

Brodie Van Wagenen, co-head of CAA Baseball, told the Associated Press that players are “outraged” at what has happened in the free agent marketplace this offseason and suggested that “testing the will of 1,200 alpha males at the pinnacle of their profession is not a good strategy.”

Van Wagenen said, “Players don’t receive their paychecks until the second week of April. Fine them? OK, for how much? Sue them? OK, they’ll see you in court two years from now.”